Hospital deal may ultimately hurt

9:27 PM,
Oct. 24, 2013

The former E.A. Conway Medical Center is under the direction of Biomedical Research Foundation.

Written by

Elliott Stonecipher

A few months back, the LSU Board of Supervisors infamously approved the contract by which the State of Louisiana handed over our LSU Hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe to the Biomedical Research Foundation. The approval was infamous because 50 pages of it - the most important 50 pages of it according to many who are paid to know - were blank.

Yep, blank, as in containing nothing but white space, blank.

These months later, what should have been on those 50 pages continues to ooze out and away from the control of Gov. Bobby Jindal's well-known Anti-Transparency Gang - i.e., all state officials ...